Public authorities have a wide range of objectives related to urban development. Usually, they strive to achieve the objectives via land use planning but their involvement in land development can be significant as well. In this paper, we compare how, and to what extent, local authorities can safeguard public objectives through the use of public and private land development by analysing four illustrative cases of land development in two Nordic countries, Finland and Sweden. Our results suggest that public land development appears to bring significant added value for public authorities in respect of achieving both qualitative and economic objectives. On the other hand, to guarantee fair treatment of landowners, it appears important that public authorities have consistent long-term land policies concerning the use of public land development. However, within democratic societies such long-term policies may be infeasible due to short electoral terms.
Article 1: Securing public objectives in large-scale urban development: Comparison of public and private land development The author was responsible for initiating, executing and writing the paper. The co-authors provided advice, comments and suggestions. Article 2: Risk management in public land development projects: Comparative case study in Finland, and the Netherlands The author was responsible for initiating, executing and writing the paper except for the data collection and analysis of the Dutch case study, which was conducted by Prof. van der Krabben. Otherwise, the co-authors provided advice, comments and suggestions.
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered abrupt and enduring changes in almost every aspects of our life, society and economy. Although the real estate sector is generally slow to adjust and evolve, this pandemic is causing swift, far-reaching consequences for the sector. Changes are likely to be widespread, encompassing all sub-sectors of the industry. While the situation is still fluid and full spectrum of the impact of it is yet to unfold, we put forward some thoughts about those changes and speculate on the trends that may shape how the sector would look like in the post-Covid-19 world.
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